Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm using this command: > > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > <snip> > > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care > > > about that and the package name. > > > > You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 }' > > > > moritz > > That didn't work either. It seems that anything I run through a pipe gets > truncated. I'm not sure why. If I just run dpkg -l all by itself, I get a > nicely spaced output that I could cut and past from, but that would require > me to do the work that my computer should do for me ;-). Any suggestions?
I'm not certain what you mean by truncated (cut off?) but if you simply mean that you want a nicely formated line try. dpkg -l | gawk ' /^ii/ && /kde/ {printf ("%-20.20s %s\n", $2,$3)}' John -- Powered by the Penguin